Selection Sunday in our fair commonwealth is about the micro. The macro of which state teams play in the NCAA basketball tournament has been answered — Virginia, Hampton and VCU are assured of bids. What's left are the details: seedings, venues and opponents.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Long before his current Oscar acclaim, Matthew McConaughey starred in a quirky little film, "Edtv," about a television show that chronicles an average person's life 24/7. The concept would be a miserable failure with Joe Harris,...

Last year, Davidson declined an invitation to join the Colonial Athletic Association. This week, the Wildcats accepted membership in the Atlantic 10.
Ah, the power of television and men's basketball.
Both the Richmond-based CAA and Newport News-...

Each week our national college football writer describes how he would handle the television remote on Saturday, handicapping what's worth watching, and skipping:
MORNING
Presbyterian (5-4) at No. 11 Mississippi (7-2)
9 a.m., SEC Network...

RALEIGH, N.C. — By the time Virginia and Coastal Carolina finally took the court late Friday night, the number was 119. Since the NCAA tournament bracket expanded to 64 teams in 1985, No. 1 seeds were 119-0 against No. 16s.
Virginia-Coastal was...

Jillian Lates will never forget her first visit to Radford University. It was this time of year, bitter cold, but everything about the place exuded warmth.
The cozy campus, welcoming students, encouraging academic staff and, most important, the venerable field hockey coach, Jeff Woods. Even the weather charmed.
"Everything was frosted over," Lates said, "and it completely looked like a winter wonderland, and I was just awed by it."
A graduate of Kecoughtan High, Lates became a Highlander, and her...

HAMPTON — Alex Close is the first to acknowledge he's not a can't-miss, five-tool, Mike Trout clone. Sabermetricians don't swoon at his numbers, and Major League scouts don't speed-dial the front office after his every at-bat.
But Close is a natural power hitter, and throughout his youth career he knew little except individual and team achievement. A freshman All-America season at Liberty University in 2012 — he led the Big South with 14 home runs — continued that arc, making his...

Lehigh's 31-14 win over Colgate again elevated the Mountain Hawks in the national polls. Lehigh moved up to No. 15 in the coaches poll from No. 17 and climbed from No. 20 to No. 17 in The Sports Network poll. Also, the 149th edition of college football's most-

Here's a complete list of this weekend's NCAA Division I football games and TV information courtesy of the National Football Foundation. American Athletic Date Time Game Network (Talent) Sat., Oct. 26 12 p.m. Houston at Rutgers ESPNews (Dave Lamont, Ray Bentle